Purchase A Tail: Tribute Tails - Remembering your beloved pet with dignity.

Dorry Bless is a celebrant. She works with her clients to create meaningful ways to celebrate and go through distinctive rites of passage. She writes, personalizes and officiates at weddings, milestone events, home blessings; as well as funerals and memorial services. To learn more visit www.circleoflifeceremonies.com Dorry received her training and certification from the Celebrant USA Foundation and Institute.

As a child, she instinctively performed ceremonies; from burying birds that fell from their nests to initiating dedication rites in her neighborhood for the clubs she formed with the kids on the block. With the given name of Bless, it’s no surprise that Dorry spent a considerable amount of time as a spiritual seeker and was ultimately drawn to this work.

She credits her professional experience as a corporate meeting planner and special events producer; in addition to a talent executive for high profile events, as well as pro bono work in the non-profit sector; as seeding the ground for the dedication and commitment she brings to her celebrant practice.

Dorry earned a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York at Albany in Rhetoric and Communication in 1979. Currently, she works as a volunteer for the hospice organization in her town. In addition, she is certified as an animal pet loss and bereavement counselor.

“My obligation is this:
To be transparent.”
— Pablo Neruda

Dorry lives in a stone farm
house on the Musconetcong River (‘quiet waters’) with her husband, Howard; their daughter, Orli; a senior Quaker parrot, Willie Dekembe Mutumbo; a middle-aged Labradoodle, DJ Shaman Jones; and a young English Springer Spaniel, Patsy Moksha O’Brien. Occasionally, some wild turkeys, guinea hens and foxes drop by. The most unusual animals to show up at her office door were a Canadian goose, a snake and three cows. Not together. The purpose of these particular visits was never clear. Maybe they just wanted to see the lady that writes the animal tributes.

Click here to read Dorry's article
"End Note; Celebrating the Life of a Pet"

Published in the February 2007
American Funeral Director issue
about pet memorialization

Meet Dorry

Order a Tail:

The cost for a Tribute Tail is $100
including shipping.
Your ‘tail’ will be at least 500 words, and at least one printed page.
Your ‘tail’ will be printed on an acid-free, parchment style paper and will be tucked in a fine gift box. It will be suitable for framing.
We will ‘meet’ over the phone, once I have received your completed form and payment. Our pre-scheduled meeting will be at least an hour long, and I will also forward you an additional questionnaire to fill out.
It will take me 15 -18 business days to write your tail after our meeting and mail it to you via US mail.
If you want to reprint your tail in a local newspaper or magazine, you must contact me and make certain that Tribute Tails receives credit in the publication.

Purchase a Tail:

Print out the information form completely and mail it back to me at the address on the form.
If you would like to purchase a gift certificate, check the appropriate box on the form. A gift certificate is $100.
Pay for your ‘tail’ via PayPal, Mastercard or Visa –click ‘buy now’ below
Email or call if you wish to send a check or money order instead.
Upon receipt of your information form and full payment, I will contact you or the recipient of your gift certificate to schedule a phone meeting. The meeting will be approximately one hour and it’s when I will learn all about your dear animal family member.
Send via email or regular mail a photo of your dear animal friend so the image can be digitized into the tribute. Your original photo will be returned when your Tribute Tail is mailed.

Thank you for ordering a Tribute Tail.
Although this circumstance is never the way we would choose to meet, I am touched and honored that you have chosen to share your animal’s story with me. I welcome you with an open heart.

dorry@tributetails.com | 908-962-0642

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